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For items in the Oxford Handbooks series, not merely any OUP title that could be called a handbook. Pages in category "Oxford Handbooks" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Gangster We Are All Looking For is the first novel by Vietnamese-American author lê thi diem thúy, published in 2003. It was first published as a short piece in The Best American Essays of 1997 and was also awarded a Pushcart Prize “Special Mention.” [1] The novel is a fragmented sequence of events recollected by a nameless narrator.
An American military advisor described Thi as "tough, unscrupulous, and fearless, but dumb". [5] There is some dispute as to whether Thi participated in the coup of his free choice. [ 9 ] According to some sources, Thi was still an admirer of Diệm and was forced at gunpoint by Đông and his supporters to join the coup at the last minute ...
5.56×45mm NATO Thailand: The NARAC556 family is based on improvements of the Colt AR-15 family. [16] [17] FN SCAR-L: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO Belgium: Seen in use with 112th Infantry Regiment [5] IWI Tavor TAR-21: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO Israel: Standard infantry rifle. [18] [19] Galil Ace N-23: Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO Israel
Approximate zones of control in South Vietnam at the time of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, January 1973.. Hearts and Minds or winning hearts and minds refers to the strategy and programs used by the governments of South Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to win the popular support of the Vietnamese people and to help defeat the Viet Cong insurgency.
The Strategic Hamlet Program was exposed as an almost complete failure in the aftermath of the November 1, 1963 coup that left Diem and his brother Nhu murdered. US officials discovered, for example, that only 20% of the 8600 hamlets that the Diem regime had reported "Complete" met the minimum American standards of security and readiness.
Basic Battle Skills is a field training manual formerly issued to individual soldiers in the British Army. [ 1 ] Editions were modified over a period of approximately 25 years before the book was withdrawn from issue.
A militant, as a noun, is a person who uses militant methods in pursuit of an objective; [17] the term is not associated with the military. Militant can refer to an individual displaying aggressive behavior or attitudes.